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Mount Vernon activists decry plan for 7-Eleven
A long-vacant basement coffee shop near Mount Vernon's Washington Monument could become a 7-Eleven convenience store over the objections of community activists, who are enlisting city support to buy the spot as a tourist information center. The former...Tags: Washington Monument, Walters Art Museum, Real Estate Agents, Dining and Drinking, Tourism and Leisure
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Parker and the city: HBO pilot films here
First it was drugs, crime and corruption, now it's sex. TV and Baltimore sure make for an interesting mix.
A year after The Wire stopped filming here, the pilot for another HBO television series, this one based on a book by D.C. sex blogger Jessica...Tags: Sex and the City (movie), Mike DeWine, Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick, NBC
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Two Methodist women get 'extraordinary ordination'
Two women blocked from ordination as United Methodist ministers because one is a married lesbian and the other disagrees with church rules on gay rights received "extraordinary ordination" in Baltimore yesterday. Organizers said it was the first such...Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Gay Rights, Colleges and Universities, Civil Rights, Methodist
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Fright nights
Leanna Foglia believes in ghosts. She says she feels their presence often. That's why she's perfect for this gig.
On a recent drizzly night in Fells Point, Foglia, 35, wearing a campy black outfit and black eyeliner that she describes as a "pirate-y...Tags: Fells Point, Baby Products, Games, and Toys, Halloween, Holidays, Medical Research
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Free Fall Baltimore schedule
ART & MUSEUMS
BABE RUTH BIRTHPLACE AND MUSEUM Enjoy free admission every Friday during October. Hours: 10 a.m.- 5 p.m. at 216 Emory Place.
BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD MUSEUM Explore the museum's historicsteam engine collection. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 21 at...Tags: Halloween, Classical Music, Museum of Modern Art, Johns Hopkins University, Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum
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Police Blotter
police blotter police reports in baltimore city and county Central Baltimore Thefts A navigational system valued at $300 was stolen Wednesday from a 2008 Honda parked in a garage in the first block of Frederick St. At the same location that day,...Tags: Reisterstown, Game Playing, Theft, Defense, Pikesville
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Howard County Datebook
On Stage 'Blacklisted' Rep Stage, the professional theater-in-residence at Howard Community College, is starting its 16th season with Trumbo: Red, White and Blacklisted, Christopher Trumbo's story of his father, screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, and his...Tags: Beverage Industry, Classical Music, People, Poetry, Trumbo (movie)
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A tell-tale festival
Age hasn't made Walter Mosley any less adventurous.
The 56-year-old cut his teeth writing crime fiction; his historical series with detective Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins spanned 11 books and established Mosley as a best-selling author. But in the past decade,...Tags: Baltimore Book Festival, Sales, Family, Fiction, Denzel Washington
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See city through fictional eyes
The sight of people with thin, white cords dangling from earphones as they walk along city streets, plugged into their own little musical worlds, is nothing unusual. But over the next few weeks in the Mount Vernon district, some of these iPod-wired...Tags: Washington Monument, Personal Service, Abraham Lincoln, North Miami, Mount Vernon
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The Matrix: Top events for your personality type
Cosmopolitans Maryland Wine Festival There will be local wine tastings, wine seminars, entertainment, crafts, food and farmhouse tours. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and noon-6 p.m. Sunday at the Carroll County Farm Museum, 500 S. Center St., Westminster....Tags: Beverage Industry, Heavy Engineering, Dundalk, Westminster (Carroll, Maryland), Vehicles
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Don't be lulled by low homicide numbers
We're through the hot, humid and dangerous months of July and August, and so far this year in Baltimore, 148 people have been killed. That's down from 210 at this time last year. Homicides are down. Baltimore is safer. Emilia Miller certainly doesn't...Tags: People, Theft, Health Treatments, Nikon Corp, Religious Leaders
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Eclectic schedule
SEPTEMBER THROUGH SEPT. 14 RV Outdoor Show, Fairgrounds THROUGH SEPT. 18 Contemporary Ceramics from Wales, Clayworks THROUGH SEPT. 18 Symbiosis: Animal and Human Form, Clayworks THROUGH OCT. 5 Tableware Show, Potters THROUGH DEC. 8 Selling the Candidates:...Tags: Robin Williams, Basilica of the Assumption, Livestock Farming, Classical Music, Halloween
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